Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Tantor Media, Inc. : Made available through hoopla, 2015
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 22 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781494590925 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT11322768, 1494590921 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 11322768
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Derek Perkins
The Victorian Internet tells the colorful story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it, from the eighteenth-century French scientist Jean-Antoine Nollet to Samuel F. B. Morse and Thomas Edison. The electric telegraph nullified distance and shrank the world quicker and further than ever before or since, and its story mirrors and predicts that of the Internet in numerous ways
Mode of access: World Wide Web